PROGRAM SAND 18 EUROPE GATHERING Titignano Castle, Orvieto, Italy 3rd - 9th July, 2018 Welcome to SAND18 Europe Gathering

We are witnessing a beautiful shift in the SAND community, one that is tending to our human experience while remembering our divine nature prior to the apparent self. On the spiritual journey there is space for our human wounds, traumas, broken hearts, pain, shame, guilt... Each moment, every situation holds the key to knowing ourselves. Our pains, our joys, our desires are the medicine that is required for us to truly taste who we are.

Nonduality is a love affair with the full spectrum of our human experience. Transcendence and immanence are two sides of the same coin. Enlightenment is intimacy with any experience that arises in this human form. We are perfectly divine in our imperfect humanity.

Let the teacher be the tingling in the belly, the cry of a child, the traf c, the tenderness in the chest, the hand of a lover… Let us bow to the intelligence of our hearts.

At SAND we gather to share this longing for intimacy with all, to touch the unknowable, to embody that which is beyond any form, to experience the source in all the multitude of forms, the in nite through the nite cycles.

SAND is a playground where we come together to explore and share insights or simply experience what is emerging in the moment. All is welcome here; reality emerges moment to moment as in nite, ever-present, interconnected, whole, and we are not separate from it. In these few days we invite you to receive every talk, every session, every interaction with an open heart and mind, remembering that with this limited body-mind we can only surrender to the mystery we call life.

Thank you for being here, for your willingness to share your insights and vulnerability. We invite you to meet each other beyond all concepts in the celebration of what is.

LOVE, Zaya & Maurizio SAND18 Europe Gathering Program

Tuesday, July 3rd 15:00 Registration Opens

18:30 Dinner

Courtyard 20:30 – 21:30 Opening Ceremony, Welcoming and Connecting the Community

Main Room 21:40 – 22.30 Who Were The Devadasis? - An Evening Dance Performance with Antonella Usai Who were the devadasis, literally the "gods' servants" dedicated since their childhood to serving in the temples of southern India through the arts? Experienced charming women or priestesses; artists linked to the sacred or the profane; holy women or prostitutes? This performance starts from these questions and investigates not only the link between bharatanatyam dance and its depositaries, but more generally the theme of the female body. A true paradox envelopes these gures who seem revealing a greater enigma: that of a feminine sacredness. The performance involving poetic texts, dance and video, co-relate past and today life, news and literature, and above all political reection and desire for poetry. Wednesday, July 4th 7:30 – 8:30 Main Room Morning Meditation with Shakti Caterina Maggi Tent Yoga with Lorraine Taylor

8:00 – 09:30 Breakfast

Morning Plenary Main Room 9:30 – 10:00 Shantena Sabbadini, Quantum Observation, Embodiment and The Arrow Of Time In this lecture I will present an understanding of a quantum observation based on the notion of embodiment. An embodied experience is an experience associated with a trace appearing in the world (e.g. a pattern of neuronal excitation arising in a brain). Unlike classical physics, which , we might say, describes the world as if seen from outside, quantum physics describes the world as it appears to embodied experiencers. The embodied perspective implies that some information is inaccessible, just like the eye cannot see itself. This inaccessibility has profound conse- quences, including the appearance of what is usually called "the collapse of the wave function". In a complete quantum description of the world there is no wave function collapse, all processes are exactly reversible, entropy is constant and there is no time arrow. But in the world experienced by us embodied experiencers wave functions appear to collapse, quantum measurement is an irreversible process, entropy grows and time has a well de ned direction. As far as we can presently tell, in a full quantum description of the universe there is no time. Time arises in our fuzzy view of reality as embodied experienc- ers. The last part of the talk will look at how the notion of embodiment is reected in Laozi's Daodejing.

10:00 – 10:25 Antonella Usai, Moti, & Gioia Lussano Intro 10:30 – 11:00 Mauro Bergonzi, The Utter Simplicity Of What Is From time to time our object-oriented attention spontaneously reverts into a state of directionless suspension and a pure sense of being becomes self-evident, which the mind translates into the thought “I am”. This sense of being is prior to any sensation, perception or thought, as it is the very source of experience. We usually denote it by vague terms, like ‘pure awareness’, ‘eternal now’ or ‘true self’. However, since it is impersonal and formless, our attempts to understand it trough concepts is ultimately doomed to fail. When even the sense of being collapses into the utter simplicity of what is, nothing remains but the inconceivable aliveness of the Absolute.

11:00 – 11:30 Break

Morning Sessions Main Room 11:30 – 13:00 Conversation with Mauro Bergonzi, The Utter Simplicity Of What Is Principe 11:30 – 11:50 Jean-Phillipe Challandes, The Old Paradigm, Our Internalized Relations of Power and the Emerging Future of Non-Dual Governance

The Old Paradigm often remains an abstract concept and a vague notion which super cially labels the current dysfunctions and obsolescence of the (still) mainstream äóìsystemäó. It is actually NOT perceptible because most people look at it from ... inside of it. The very lens through which many of us look at things actually IS the old paradigm. It operates like a pair of tainted glasses that distort the vision of everything that is looked at through them. The rst part of this talk will therefore offer tools to discern very precisely and concretely what that old paradigm consists of, highlighting above all the underpinning idea of separation and the implicit sense of lack which constitute its foundation. Tools that will help become aware of how this old paradigm operates in one’s life, within oneself, in the economy and in organizations. The second part will focus on Self-Awareness, including in its spiritual dimension - and proposes the hypothesis that this core intimate process is both a necessary pre-condition to actually perceive what the old paradigm is about - including within oneself - and to create the very possibility of the Emergence of new personal and societal possibilities. It will nevertheless also highlight the widespread danger of a stage in development that looks like a new paradigm, but is ultimately a mere update of the old with the appearance of the new. The last part will show that our current way of considering work can genuinely and technically be understood as a mere update of a slavery system and that our internalized versions of the Master- and-Slave relationship may well be the rst issue to be addressed before any new effective understanding of Governance can ourish. The conclusion will insist on the necessary development of a non-dual relationship between the old and the new paradigms, and hint that a baby steps approach is likely to be the most impactful one for most people and organizations.

12:00 – 12:20 Dhyana Stanley, Self-Discovery Includes the Nature of Form: Our Humanity Is Not a Problem Within some of the non-dual community there is a teaching that views our humanity as a kind of weakness but in my view this is a very unfortu- nate misperception. If we believe any form is a weakness we are then bound to live that out. When we give our thoughts and feelings power through the belief that they actually affect what we are we limit our innate power unnecessarily. If all form is an expression of Consciousness how can there be a problem with any form? If form is not separate from the Formless that then means that the nature of form is not separate from the nature of the Formless. They are one. The nature of the Formless and form are one. If we then feel that any form is a problem, something we just have to put up with, or some kind of human weakness, these feelings are an opportunity to nd out if that is in fact true. Whenever we feel bound, rather than avoid form and continue with what we assume to be true, Life is lovingly offering us the opportunity to look deeper than all of our assumptions. We are not meant to live here feeling as if anything diminishes us or affects our true sense of Self but to be free from all that seems to bind us. And those feelings of feeling bound are the literal way into the direct understanding and sensing that we are not. How can we live here freely if we feel that anything is a problem? And how can we discover that no form is an actual problem if we continue to avoid what we believe is a problem? We have to be open to directly discover for ourselves the truth of all form. Self- discovery is not only about discovering our Formless essence, it is about discovering that form is not separate from our essence. And to experientially realize that there is no separation between the Formless and form we need to be open to fully allow all form as it actually is. This openness allows the opportunity not only to sense our true nature but the nature of all form as one with our own.

12:30 – 12:50 Anja-Karina Pahl, The Mask of the Buddhas: How The Secret Inner Path of The Mandelbrot Set Resolves Duality & Reveals a Divine Face Atheists often complain that Christian religious icons prove humans made God up - that an anthropomorphic saviour gure must be a gment of human imagination, an apophenic invention. Buddhists are also not exempt from similar doubts about their deities - friends have surprised me by asking, But why do they look like us? My answer is: they don’t. We look like them. Not just because the Bible purports we are made in His image. But also because evolution of a divine face and body seem to be mathematical necessities in the evolution of spacetime - a face of in nity and body of a Buddha arise from the simplest equations that govern chaos theory. This is exposed in the Buddhabrot, a special render of the fractal Mandelbrot Set. Spiritual practitioners may be excited to learn that, at its heart, this equation de nes a special case of iteration that overcomes all duality - all opposites, contradictions, contra-indications and conicts on every scale and dimension of mindbodyspacetime. The equation seems to do with material - rabbit breeding cycles, apple crop sustainability and star bursts - what religion tells us to do with our mind. This is not a theory unsupported by experiment. Indeed, we can overlay scores of ancient Buddhist Thangkas painted by mediation Masters with the mathematical graphs and nd a statistically signi cant match of the most important points with a chance of 1 in approximately a sextrigillion. That’s as likely as nding just one atom of a needle among all the particles in the universe. Everyone can see for themselves, how 17 images of the divine t the mathematical model, using my new Augmented Reality App. And then we can discuss the impact of this proto non-dual physics for Buddhists and suggest what it might mean for other sciences and religion in the future.

Tent 11:30 – 13:00 Antonella Usai, Making Love With The Void Dance has to do with the Mystery regardless of whether it is constituted as a religious dance or not. Its manifestation can be considered as the motion of a body even only metaphorically "naked" to confront the empty space. In Indian sacred dance, the Beloved is nothing but the anthropomorphized form of that Void with which the dancing body, through countless "missed acts", relates to every moment. If we accept therefore as a postulate of dancing what Sibony recognizes as a act of "making Love with the Void", then every dance comes to betray, in its essence, an intimate bond with the sacred, represented in the last instance, by the empty space. Cellar 11:30 – 13:00 Moti, Art Contemplation as a Gate To Space and Silence

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Sessions Main Room 15:30 – 16:05 Shantena Sabbadini Daoist Wisdom For Our Times The language of ancient Daoist wisdom is singularly appropriate to confront some crucial issues of our times. The evolution of Western thought has, in a sense, brought us full circle and we are still far from fully grasping the implications of this fact. Catching up with that realiza- tion has implications that go way beyond philosophy: they affect how we relate to the world and to each other and how we care for this planet of ours. The language of ancient Daoist wisdom comes closer to express- ing the essence of that necessary transformation than our contemporary technical language. 16:10 – 16:45 Conversation with Mauro Bergonzi and Shantena Sabbadini 16:50 – 17:30 Conversation with Ellen Emmet

Principe Room 15:30 – 16:05 Giuseppina Carrera, Counselling and Nonduality When nonduality steps into a counselling studio, or other practices offering help and support, the nature of the work undergoes a changeäóîhardly noticeable at the beginning, and then deeper and deeper. It becomes more and more evident that all human beings are searching for the same peace and clarity. They may call it spiritual quest or, to put it more simply, a long for welfare, love, or letting go of any thing that makes them uneasy. Nonduality changes radically how people see the vital issues of responsibility, free will, relationship, trust, void, fear, love, and separation. All these terms acquire new dimensions and new appearances. Such change of perspective, which modi es the meaning one attributes to the so-called existential malaises, can be transferred to the client in an experiential fashion. Plain language, close to the client’s everyday life, will be the best approach to make the work more direct and more effective. 16:10 – 16:45 Kent Welsh, A Nondual Life: In Body, Mind, Heart, and Spirit Non-duality points us towards emptiness, towards our true nature beyond all separation, beyond any division. A human life lives in an apparent duality and in nite diversity of an interior self and the exterior world. An authentic Nondual life integrates the diversity and challenges of life with the peace and contentment of Nondual realization. During this meeting we will look at the relationship between Nondual realization and our human life. The embodiment of Nonduality in our human life. Some of the questions we will explore are: What does a Nondual life look like and how does it differ from a normal life? We will discuss some common obstacles such as blind spots and the unintegrated shifts between our absolute and relative natures, and offer some guideposts and attributes of a Nondual human life.

16:50 – 17:30 Will Pye, Personal Awakening and Collective Flourishing; Letting Love Live you as a New Earth Ninja Exploring the intersection of individual awakening with humanity evolving through response to the many challenges we face into collective ourishing. Utilizing the lens of one holographic reality, One Unitive Consciousness we will play with the possibility and experience of realizing One human being. Through this we will see and enjoy how the integration and embodiment of Truth in each of us is essential to the co-creation of ourishing human community. Discover the power of our full surrender to being lived by Love. Taste the Beautiful qualities of being a 'New Earth Ninja', awake, empowered and inspired. Principe Room 15:30 – 16:05 Gioia Lussana, The Yoga Of Saundarya: Touching Reality Through The Experience Of Beauty Kāśmirian non-dual yoga fosters a sense of intimacy with everything. This sensitivity (sahdayatva) is more than ordinary awareness: it is a feeling of intimate connection between oneself and the object of attention. As well as an artist or a saint, the yogi ultimately touches the very core of reality: the inner beauty of all that exists. Intuition of beauty is a higher form of awareness, touching our true nature, life itself. Cellar 15:30 – 17:30 Nadeshwari Joythimayananda, Invoking Shakti Ritual & Performance. A performance that directly involves the public. A ritual with Indian roots to research and express the material-bodily existence and to perceive the subtle and constant exchange with the invisible (mantra / yantra / sacred shapes / bharatanatyam ...) Lawn 15:30 – 16:30 Gabrielle Mueller-Engeler, Magical Stories of Longing and Striving. I will tell stories and fairy tales for adults. The source from which these ancient tales come from is as true and relevant today as it was in mythical times.

17:30 – 18:00 Break Evening Session Main Room 18:00 – 18:40 Fariba Bogzaran, Hypnagogic Lucidity: A Gateway To The Inner Worlds Every night at the onset of sleep, we enter into a state of consciousness called Hypnagogia or in-between state. This brief experience often is forgotten yet it has the potential to peak into the vast dimensions of the inner worlds and has been used for creativity, spiritual experiences, lucid dreaming and problem solving. There are many levels and layers of Hypnagogia from its unique personal or archetypal imageries to auditory and kinesthetic experiences. In this presentation, the scienti c and phenomenology of this state of consciousness will be discussed along the side of its cross-cultural spiritual practice for lucid dreaming such as Dream Yoga, Nidra Yoga or Shamata. 18:50 – 19:30 Chris Fields, Constructing and Reconstructing Individuality Where does our sense of being individual, bounded entities - indeed, individual, bounded human beings - come from? Whatever else is involved, our autobiographical memories provide a key element of our sense of continuing individuality. Our appearance in our memories, however, raises a question - how do we know that what appears to be us in our memories really is us? Indeed, how do we know that any entity appearing in a memory is the same entity appearing in another memory, or appearing now? By pursuing what is known about the answer to this question, we will encounter surprising evidence that we are not individuals after all, but are rather more-or-less cooperative communities of cognitive agents that have different knowledge, abilities and intuitions.

19:30 Dinner

Evening Program Courtyard 22:30 – 23:30 Music Performance with Asoula re Fuelled by a burning passion for life, Asoula re channels her potent poetry into rich, soulful vocals and a refreshing variety of sonic avours. Never one to be kept in a box, she crafts original songs in an evolving style that bridges many genres including roots, reggae, soul, jazz and folk music. Since leaving her native Switzerland to follow her calling into the unknown; performing and recording with other musicians. She has transformed the joys and challenges of this time into authentic songs that resonate deep within the souls of her audience. As a female artist claiming her power in a patriarchal era, and a woman dedicated to her own path of healing, Asoula re carries a special ame for the women of the world. Her music blazes straight from the soul, aiming to empower and inspire humanity to be raw, real and alive – to set our souls on re! Cellar Nathan Godolphin, Earth Sky Dance Journey - The Dance of 22:30 – 23:30 the Self A Freeing Movement Practice that mirrors and expresses the Journey of Life within us, and us in Life. This is our movement, our expression, our Being Here. Our Life to be with- in Stillness and in movement. Presence holds the space, as we move with the music from the inside out... and bring all that we are back in (…while letting go of what we no longer need). This is the Free Yoga of Direct Experience. A chance to move according to your own being. A chance to move as you are. Thursday, July 5th 7:30 – 8:30 Main Room Morning Meditation with Bernie Prior Tent Yoga with Suzy Adra

8:00 – 09:30 Breakfast

Morning Plenary Main Room 9:30 – 10:00 Peter Russell, Resting in Being Behind all our endeavors lies the desire to be happy—to feel content, relaxed, and at ease. No one wants to be in pain or to suffer unnecessar- ily. This is our true bottom line. Why then, given the many bene ts and comforts of contemporary culture, are we so seldom at peace? Through- out history, there have been those who’ve discovered a timeless truth about human consciousness: The mind in its natural unperturbed state is already at ease. We don’t need to do anything, or go anywhere to nd the inner peace and joy we seek. The beauty of this approach is that nothing needs to be changed or eliminated. It is simply relaxing back into our natural state of effortless being. Join Peter Russell for an exploration of the nature of human consciousness and the essence of spiritual awakening, how our thoughts can veil the peace within, the distinction between ego and the true self, and how to free meditation from effort and trying. 10:10 – 10:20 Ajaya Sommers, Core Embodiment 10:30 – 11:00 Bernie Prior, The Fascination of a Deeper Calling “Awareness Knowing leads the way for it is ‘The Way’. Being fascinated by just a little deeper than our old ways awakens the profoundly Real within. There is so much more, far more to the ‘WHAT’ one is within, than we perceive of our universe, our lives, our selves. Alchemy is daily life and everything that comes, no matter how it looks to the mind, is all in transformation in our return Now, as Awareness, to the Deep. Transformation doesn't mean anything needs to 'happen' it simply means that Awareness that once thought it was a body-mind is now fascinated with the greater depth of what It is and what it can come deeper into within realising its Self. The Seeing and Knowing begins to be immeasurably deep but Awareness must lead the brain away from the old habit of the belief in a limited sense of self if Awareness, as the Deep, is to have immediate presence of true form as You and I. It is Awareness that leads the way for it alone is prior to all things and all forms. It leads the way both within our brains and within our genetics, indeed within the universe. It is the Beingness of being true as Awareness, the living as direct Knowledge that enables the forming of profound realities up into the body-mind. The movement of Awareness, one with Pure Knowing, unlocks the deeper recesses of what the brain is for, which is for Awareness to give true form to the formless. Finally, this Awareness is ‘Nobody’ and ‘Nothing’, free of all form and yet all forms are made of I-Awareness. This is the movement of Love.

11:00 – 11:30 Break

Morning Sessions Main Room 11:30 – 13:00 Conversation wtih Bernie Prior, A Deeper Calling

Tent 11:30 – 13:00 Qigong with Mauro Bergonzi

Cellar 11:30 – 13:00 Fariba Bogzaran, Lucidity and Hypnagogic Re-entry Hypnagogic experiences which occur at the onset of sleep, is akin to Principe Room deep meditation and other altered states of consciousness. Cultivating 11:30 – 11:50 hypnagogia is an occasion to learn skills in awareness in sleep-lucid dreaming. In this experiential workshop, Bogzaran will lead participants to a hypnagogic re-entry with the sound of the rhythmic drum. The practice is to gain skill of witnessing while falling asleep lucidity. The re-entry follows by creative writing with a culmination of Poetic Synthe- sis. Bogzaran developed this method of dream re-entry with drum in 1986 during the time she was being trained for shamanic practices and conducting scienti c research in sleep laboratory. She has used this effective method of working with dreams for over thirty years.

12:00 – 12:20 Adam Chacks eld, Activating We-Consciousness: Venturing Beyond Individual Awakening In this session we'll activate and explore the vast alive space of we-consciousness together. We'll use a simple practice to directly enter the experience of this consciousness, and allow ourselves to become vehicles for it's revelation and expression. For thousands of years spiritual teachings have been devoted to individual awakening, and as this happens more, we're now starting to discover the even greater possibility of awakening the shared consciousness of inter-being. Rather than just individual mysticism and individual revelation, we're being invited into we-mysticism and shared revelation. When we mutually give ourselves to we-consciousness, we participate in a radically more inclusive, complex, and creative consciousness. This consciousness is unique to the participants, highly dynamic, and greater than the sum of its parts. To be inside this consciousness together is like entering a dimension of the universe that is only just being discovered. Love is calling us to give ourselves to each other so profoundly that we move completely beyond separation and inside shared consciousness. When we dissolve into the depth of this intimacy a shared sense of oneness emerges where we are all unique channels for the expression of something much greater. Despite being typically overlooked, we-consciousness is readily acces- sible for many, as soon as we turn towards it together. And it can be immediately recognized as resonant for us. This session is an opportu- nity for us to tap the incredible potential of our shared consciousness that's just waiting to be activated.

12:00 – 12:20 Nick Day, Love (and Desire) Go To The Movies Love is a perennial theme in painting, literature, music, and the movies, but what do we really discover about the nature of love, sexual desire and relationships from the arts? Does art inform us with deep, eternal truths about love or merely bounce back the beliefs and biases of its time? And, if so, does art effectively constrain our notions of love, and place culture-bound limits on it? Can love be liberated from art, or by art? In movies about love and relationships, there is a well worn path to commercial success that relies on familiar tropes. In a typical romantic comedy, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy then makes outlandish gesture and wins girl’s heart forever. In a drama triangle, a marriage is threatened when one partner “strays” and brings down the sky in the process. Conventions of storytelling require that transgressions be punished before harmony can be restored. Women in particular are never permitted sexual desire beyond the con nes of a monogamous relation- ship. In family comedies, hapless husbands are to be tamed and domes- ticated. Characters are rarely represented as having real communication skills or emotional intelligence. Arthouse lms about love are far more nuanced, but the underlying cultural rulebook mostly still applies. Do such lms truly reect what love and relationships are, or can be, or do they simply force people into a box? In this presentation I’ll look at how love has been historically portrayed in the movies, how this might inuence our own beliefs about relationships, and offer examples that break free of the monogamous heteronormative rulebook. 12:30 – 13:00 Nadeshwari Joythimayananda, Lalita Tripura Sundari: The Meeting Between Eros and Spiritual Aspiration The ancient wise yogini anticipated quantum physics by noting that a subtle vibrational energy is the substratum of everything we know and perceive. Unlike scientists, they experienced this energy not only as an abstract vibration, but as an expression of the divine feminine power called Shakti. The word Shakti means "power", understood as the power of life. The tantric sages decoded this vortex of energy giving this "power" an anthropomorphic image and a mythical language, thus creating a spiritual technology to best enjoy the divine qualities in human energy. To live this they introduced spiritual practices, sadhana, focused on the gures of the Goddesses of the Hindu pantheon. Lalita Tripura Sundari is the form of the Shakti that brings together the apparent opposites of power and sexuality, sexual and spiritual love. Its frequency intertwines with mastery and playfulness the delightful form of the integrated feminine. She is connected to Parvati in the quality of faithful wife Yogini and to Kali in the indomitable wild woman, but on the vibratory level, she is an octave above these two Goddesses. Lalita in the beginning is a Tantric Goddess, mediator of the inner realms and guides through the higher levels of samadhi. It is the divine beauty (sundari) that permeates the states of waking, dream, deep sleep and the Three Worlds (tripura): physical, subtle and causal body. Lalita is the cosmic force that attracts atoms to form molecules, manifests itself as the attractive fragrance that owers releases to attract bees and is like the inner warmth of animal and human sexuality. As a spiritual principle, the Shakti of Lalita channels worldly desires into active spiritual aspiration. So, when we meditate on Lalita Tripura Sundari, we can access two of the most attractive aspects of the Goddess: her generative, creative and vitalizing energy and her power of spiritual bliss, the internal drive that guides the mind on the path to the spiritual heart.

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Sessions Main Room 15:30 – 16:30 Conversation with Peter Russell 16:30 – 17:30 Exploring Self, a conversation with Chris Fields, Fariba Bogzaran & Peter Russell Principe Room 15:30 – 16:05 Gerard Bloomenstijn, The Umbilical Cord Between the Invisible Seer and the Individual Seer On the one hand we believe in the world of objects, consisting of particles in space-time. On the other hand we believe in our Conscious- ness Essence, the I of our mind, which experiences everything via the senses and mental processes. In Non-Duality we even believe that the one Consciousness Essence of the universe lives through all living beings as our innermost consciousness, as that which experiences in us. This I of our minds and the universal Self are one, not two, not dual. This means that my and your consciousness is in its essence identical with the Self. This idea is what we call Non-Duality or in Sanskrit Advaita, Not-Two. An Advaita teacher once said: You, oating around like an astronaut in the space of yourself, seeing with some invisible umbilical cord connected to the Invisible Seer. Well, maybe. Are you the individual seer, who is in the great space, oating like an astronaut, oating, seeing? Or are you the Great Space itself? We, as curious people and as scientists, wonder what this umbilical cord between the Invisible Seer and the individual seer consists of. What is it? Did we discover this connection already in our scientic exploration of reality? It has to be able to connect the Mother, the Invisible Seer, to the child, the individual seer. On the side of the child it has to connect to a body and mind, and on the side of the Mother it has to connect to the One Invisible Seer. Furthermore it is not one child, but an immensity of children: all living beings. In my presentation I will try to nd possibilities for this umbilical cord in terms of scientic principles and processes.

16:10 – 16:45 Jules Alvarado, Healing~The Spiritual vs The Psychological Approach In the psychological world we look for the x; in the spiritual world we look for meaning. Once you embrace that you're whole, complete, and perfect, there are no more excuses. The focus of the work moves from I must change to I accept myself as I am and look forward to transforming life through acceptance. When we nd ourselves questioning the very meaning of life, the purpose for it all, the reason that we are born and that we experience all that we do; we are growing, evolving, learning and becoming better spiritual beings having this human experience. We learn more about the depth of who we are, what we are made of and what we are capable of during periods of pain, suffering, confusion and times of discomfort. Through the darkest nights we come to appreciate the light of dawn; through the sti ing heat we come to appreciate the cooler times. When all is going well we don’t question, we don’t wonder, we tend to stagnate and stagnation leads to death; psychological, spiritual, emotional and physical death. There is meaning and reason for all that happens. Why are you here? Why do you do what you do every day? What makes it all worthwhile? What is the end objective for you? When we move to the spiritual reason for it all we are more likely to consider how even the worst of all experiences may help us to grow, help us to learn important lessons in life, and help us to help others. When the story that we tell ourselves about painful painful life experiences puts us at fault, or assigns blame or responsibility that is not accurate we are more likely to suffer; however, if the story that we tell ourselves is that there is a reason for surviving this trauma and that now we have an important purpose to serve with our lives and depth of knowing, we are more likely to experi- ence Post Trauma Growth instead of Post Trauma Stress. We will explore the real life difference between the spiritual and the psychological approach to healing.

16:50 – 17:25 Mark Gober, An End to Upside Down Thinking Mark Gober is an author whose worldview was turned upside down in late 2016 when he learned of phenomena that threaten the prevailing view in science that consciousness comes from the brain. After researching extensively for nearly a year, he became convinced that a paradigm shift was in order: biology does not produce consciousness; rather, consciousness produces biology. Over several weekends in July 2017, he summarized his research by writing a book entitled An End to Upside Down Thinking: Why Your Assumptions About the Material World Are No Longer Scienti cally True. The book covers a wide range of topics including: quantum physics, remote viewing, telepathy, precogni- tion, psychic animals, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, medium- ship, and children who remember previous lives. It is written for a general audience and aims to encourage a much-needed global shift in scienti c and existential thinking. Mark feels that many, if not all, of the world’s problems today relate to a fundamental misunderstanding of conscious- ness, which misinforms views on who and what we are. Implications are vast, ranging from science to medicine to education to business to politics and beyond. Tent 15:30 – 17:30 Ellen Emmet, Body Of Truth, Body Of Vibration: A Ritual When we knowingly take our stand as the limitless eld of Awareness we may recognise that all experiences arise spontaneously within it and share their deepest reality with it. In this workshop, we will give special attention to the body. For most of us, even after an awakening to our true nature of Awareness, we continue to experience the body as a habitual and intricate network of density and tension which perpetuates and reects the belief in being a fragment that needs to defend, assert and protect itself... These habits are layered, deep rooted and active under the surface of our contemplation. Thus, the body’s original and harmonious nature, its lively owing expression, and deep silent vibration remain compromised by the impossible task of maintaining itself as an anchor and cage for the separate one... Together we will explore and discover. Cellar 15:30 – 17:30 Jillian Crocker & Po Shu Wang - RELATE - Five Easy Acts No skills, no goals, no ambition required. This is just an hour of active relating to self, others, the rest of what’s here in a gently down to earth somatic way. It does require your willingness to live these interactive moments with simple means that we are all way more than capable of. All spiritual selves, animal selves, and social selves are welcomed. For the rest, the universe provides. In return, we will be no better than who we already are. Act 1: How to simply fold our bilaterally symmetric self? Act 2: Why duality? Act 3: What is tactile mirror? Act 4: Why we are carrying the universe upon our shoulders? Act 5: What goes around? What comes around? Lawn 15:30 – 17:30 Estrella Jimenez Gomez, Let's Save the Cosmos, Dear Jedi Friends! We all know that at SAND conference, there are a lot of jedi. Beautiful people that knows how to use the force to be in the way of the light. We will come together in this activity to play and have fun, and at the same time, to save the cosmos! A cooperative outdoors game in which we will ght in different teams, but all together, to save the universe from the dark forces. Different tests have to be past to activate peace and harmony in the cosmos.We will learn about astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, in a fun and active way, and at the same time we will develop the light inside us. A game for all ages!

17:30 – 18:00 Break

Evening Session Main Room 18:00 – 18:40 Shakti Caterina Maggi, Divinely Human, The Integration Of Awakening In Daily Life Integrating the recognition of the true Self in daily living asks to overcome patterns of identi cation that upsurge cyclically in our every- day experience. A ickering between seeing what you are and feeling separated is a very common experience that can give the impression of losing clarity or steadiness in Emptiness. Life itself is the reection of any movement of Consciousness and represents a constant invitation to recognize and include what is still unseen and sensed as separated. The way in which Life morphs and moves will reect this integration. In reaching the deepest core of our innermost vulnerability a precious pearl can nally shine showing how our humanity is the embodiment of our divine essence.

18:50 – 19:30 Vera de Chalambert, Gifts of Brokenness Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk said, "There is nothing so whole as a broken heart. The world breaks our hearts wide open; and it is the openness itself that makes us whole.” This presentation will explore the theme of brokenness through the lens of comparative religion and delve into the paradox of divine brokenness through the teachings from various spiritual traditions. We will explore sacred narratives of brokenness from the Jewish, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist cosmologies, including the great primordial shattering of divine vessels in Lurianic Kabbalah, the story of the Hindu Goddess of brokenness Akilandeswari, as well as the theological implications of Christological wounds, and of the Buddhist Perfection of Wisdom Sutra from which the notion of Bodhisattva rises, a teaching that awakened consciousness does not in fact merge into perfect bliss, but instead chooses to remain in the brokenness of reality; in solidarity and relatedness with all beings, until all beings are free. That things will fall apart in our lives, despite our greatest efforts is as inevitable as breath. Indeed, no matter how spiritual, how awake we might be, no matter how clear our intention, or good our karma, there is only one certainty: we will all without exception experience loss, pain, heartbreak and disappointment of a regular human life. Whether it is death, divorce, disease or failure that shakes up our world and makes us tremble, whether it is a broken dream or a broken bone that brings us to our knees, brokenness is an essential part of the human experience and a jewel of the spiritual process. Our brokenness is not a mistake, but an invitation to give up on our projects of xing ourselves, xing reality. Instead it kindly points us in the direction of the Divine, it too shattered, fragmented, broken open in its radical wholeness and dwelling among Her broke, broken, broken hearted likeness.

19:30 Dinner

Evening Program Courtyard 21:30 – 22:30 Ital Noiz Music Performance Ital Noiz is a dub project based in Rome, put together by Giulio Ferrante aka Giulio Bass, bass player and vocalist, original member of Radici nel Cemento (www.radicinelcemento.it) one of the italian historical reggae bands ( since 1995 ), and Angelo Morrone aka MrFasa, keyboard player, sound engineer and reggae producer. Ital Noiz, that can be translated as “positive noise”, started in 2009, releasing a demo cd and playing around the country, appearing in different clubs and festivals like the Rototom Sunsplash, one of the most important reggae events in Europe. In june 2010 the rst single, named “Ital Noiz”, was released by the label “Universal Egg” www.wobblyweb.com of Neil Perch from Zion Train, featuring on side A the remix by Neil and on side B Ital Noiz’ s mix. Ital Noiz’s show is a powerdubical experience.. a bass therapy mix through roots, jungle, stepper, drum ‘n bass… A few covers amongst original tunes where the powerful and hypnotic riddim supports the vocal contents always aiming to enjoy while meditating upon conscious lyrics. The show, and the recordings too, often involve guest vocalists and/or musicians as a horn section that adds ames to the groove!

Friday, July 6th 7:30 – 8:30 Main Room Morning Meditation with Peter Russell Cellar Yoga with Lorraine Taylor

8:00 – 09:30 Breakfast

Morning Plenary Main Room 9:30 – 10:00 Jude Currivan, Beyond The Appearance of Separation: Unity Expressed in Diversity Our fragmented beliefs about reality – the seeming separation of the world have driven our harmful behaviours – con icts, inequalities and exploitations of people and planet. Many people are trying to heal these symptoms of the dis-ease of our collective belief in separation. But unless we heal its cause, the epidemic of such behaviours will continue.Until now, mainstream science has stated that the appearance of separation is real – and that the physical world is the only reality. At this pivotal moment, an emerging scientic revolution is instead revealing that the reality of our world is not only fundamentally interconnected, but essentially unied.Such unity is expressed through exquisite differentia- tion and diversity of multi-dimensional realities and manifestation of the physical world. And whilst each of us is a unique individual, instead of the apparent separation between you and me, us and our planet, our planet and the entire Universe; there’s no real separation at all. Despite its seeming solidity, physicists also know that drilling down to the scale of sub atomic entities shows essentially no-thingness, but merely excitations of force elds of relationships.Experiments are also showing that the digitised information of our technologies is exactly the same as universal information that makes up, and is, the fundamental nature of the whole Universe.Whereas a hologram captures information about an object onto a 2D lm, then projects it to create the holographic appearance of the 3D object – cosmologists are discovering that our entire Universe takes information held on its 2D boundary and holographically projects it to create the 3D appearance of reality: a ‘cosmic hologram’ that exists, and evolves, as a unied and nite thought form in the in nite mind of the Cosmos. This emerging science is discovering that dynamic and patterned in-formation literally in-forms reality; that mind is matter, matter is mind, and that consciousness isn’t something we have, but what we and the whole world are.Each of us is a co-creative microcosm of our Universe’s innate intelligence – and with every thought, emotion, word and action, we contribute to the co-creation of our world.To not only survive, but thrive, as a species, the universal impulse of evolution is now inviting us, rather than to continue to play out the ‘illusion’ of separation, to understand, experience and embody the awareness of such unity expressed through diversity.

10:10 – 10:20 Peter Littlejohn Cook Intro 10:30 – 11:00 Riccardo Manzotti, I Am Not My Body But I Am Physical Nonetheless: The Mind-Object Identity (The Spread Mind) Explains What We Are We are one and the same as the world we perceive. We are not “here”, inside our body. We are “there” where the world presents itself. We are one and the same with familiar objects, the people we love, the sky, the sun, the stars. There isn’t any distance between “us” and the world. Crucially, this means that we are neither our body nor inside it, yet the body is the physical fulcrum that allows the world we are to exist. Each of us is a particular world relative to a particular object we lovingly call “the body”. In fact, we are not a body, rather we have a body. We are not a brain, we have a brain. The Spread Mind explains why we have so easily and persistently missed this obvious truth – the identity between us and the world. It suggests a new conception of the physical world in which we can place ourselves seamlessly. In order to do so we have to understand and embrace a new view of the physical world that is surprisingly consistent with the most recent physical theories (relativity and quantum mechanics). All objects have a relative existence and are spread in space and time.

11:00 – 11:30 Break

Morning Sessions Main Room 11:30 - 13:00 Conversation with Shakti Caterina Maggi Principe Room 11:30 - 11:50 Jet Izabella Thurmann, Ayur Veda Ayurveda says: Diseases do not exist, only imbalances. If you can regain the state of balance with which you were born, your body and mind will heal themselves. Ayurveda means the science of life and is a Vedic Indian health system, which goes back in time thousands of years. According to Ayurveda, diseases occur as a result of the imbalances in the body and mind, which you have today compared to the balance with which you are born. Therefore, Ayurveda encourages you to know your personal state of balance at birth (your prakuti). I use an ayurvedic pulse diagnosis to nd the Vikruti (imbalance). The pulse can reveal any imbalances in the body and mind - following the pulse diagnosis you will be advised as to how you can restore your balance your prakuti by means of diet plans, meditation, yoga, herbal medicine, massage, change of lifestyle, Ayurvedic cooking, etc. The diet is an important part of maintaining this balance. In Ayurvedic cooking, we use spices to balance body and mind in order for the body to digest the food better and feel full of energy after a meal.

12:00 - 12:20 Dieter Mueller, Embracing Science and Spirituality Living life to the fullest is all about accepting scienti c and spiritual insights without inner conicts. We are learning how to live in the now and actively shape the future at the same time. It’s about accepting experiences as they are and seeking to understand by scienti c means concurrently. To be truly human is to make use of all the wisdom given to us by our souls, our bodies, our relationships, as well as our natural and technical environment. In the 21st Century, science and technology have a deep impact on our daily lives yet we are far away from believing science solves everything. There is no agreement in the scienti c community about the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics or the origin and fate of our universe. Nevertheless, we embrace the bene ts of technology while being aware of its potential for destruction. The rst time in history todayäó»s technology makes it feasible to share the essence of many spiritual traditions without sacri cing decades of our precious lifetime. A gathering like SAND is celebrating one interacting scienti c and spiritual culture and in doing so it has the potential to unfold all our human potentials. 12:30 - 12:50 Jan Pilotti, Conscious Spacetime Light is central in enlighten-ment. What is light? Einstein said that nothing could go faster than light. But what about thoughts when we think of far away places and more directly in near- death-experiences when äóìI could see everything at the same time and it was not limited by distanceäó and entanglement in quantum mechan- ics? Einstein missed the possibility for faster than light, which can be described in a six-dimensional spacetime, three space and three time. Near-death-experience seeing oneäó»s whole life at once is interpreted as a direct experience of Einstein’s 4D spacetime. Sensory experiences are never experienced in the brain and Riccardo Manzotti argues strongly that sensory experiences are identical with the objects we experience. But how about memories, hallucinations and thoughts? They are not in the space now so must be in brain? No! As Manzotti argue these are related to earlier experiences still existing as causes, as events in Einsteinäó»s 4D spacetime. There even the future might exist and this seemingly supports determinism. But in 6D we have freedom to choose between many possibilities. Manzotti convincingly argues that consciousness is real and physical, but not in the brain but is one and the same as the physical world around us. Rupert Spira starts from consciousness as the fundamental underly- ing reality of the apparent duality of mind and matter. Even if Spira truly says that the highest teaching is Silence he also knows that we often need to use language on our path to enlightenment. And Spira uses space and time metaphor for speaking of consciousness, which in the form of thought appears to itself as time and in the form of perception appears to itself as space. Manzotti’s physicalism and Spira’s consciousness ism are seemingly contradictory or rather starting at different ends of experience but both express the identity of mind and object/matter and I hope and think they can meet in the language of six-dimensional conscious spacetime. Tent 11:30 – 13:00 Ellen Emmet, Body Of Truth, Body Of Vibration: A Ritual (See previous) Cellar 11:30 – 13:00 Peter Littlejohn Cook, Rediscovering Wholeness - Advaita Tantra: 1+1=1 Breath, Voicework, Movement, Connection, Communion. Tantra demysti ed.

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Sessions Main Room 15:30 – 16:30 Conversation with Jude Currivan 16:35 – 17:35 Conversation with Riccardo Manzotti and Chris Fields Principe Room 15:30 – 16:05 Paul Bush, The Brain and Reality Neuroscience is now at the point where a tentative explanation of brain functioning can be proposed. I will present such a theory, based on the correlational approach that has had such success recently in machine learning (expert chess and go programs, self-driving cars etc). I will outline the differences between these programs and the brain, focusing on the brain's use of subjective experience (feeling) rather than the externally provided decision criteria that machines use. The talk will continue with a criticism of the default scienti c assumption that the brain receives information from an independent external world. An examination of this topic will extend to physical theories of the world as well as philosophical/religious explanations that have been advanced. Some sort of summary will be proposed! 16:10 – 16:45 Peta Morton, The Rhythm of Life Who are you really? What are you? Your physical body is constructed from a variety of chemical elements, assembled in such a way as to form molecules, cells, blood, bones, organs, teeth, hair. It is constantly changing and renewing itself. You are not the same person you were even a few moments ago. You are made from the very same basic building blocks of life that permeate our entire galaxy, bound together in complex ways to form intricately detailed structures, but you are so much more than the sum of your physical parts. You are a collection of thoughts and experiences and the information you have accumulated about them, a bundle of beliefs, memories and emotions. You are the stories you tell yourself. A master translator of frequency and vibration, you are a wondrous synthesiser of life. Your bodily instrument is a musical marvel, constantly generating a glorious spectrum of sound, both audible and inaudible, combining electrical signals of different frequencies. You are simultaneously a transmitter, receiver and interpreter of data, like some magni cent router. You are an array of ordered photons, particles and waves of light. You are a system, nested within countless other systems. Above all, you are a process, an integral part of life seeking to experience itself. Join Peta to explore your True Nature through sound, rhythm, vibration, frequency, geometry and personal experience, as she playfully demon- strates how our minds really do affect our physical reality. Tent 22:00 – 23:00 Lorraine Taylor, Yoga Of The Heart For Women We will explore different ways of opening and softening the heart through yoga asana, breath, music and poetry. The Su s say you are a real Su when your heart is as soft as wool. And many mystics, gurus and poets talk about the importance of the heart and how it is our gateway to freedom and love. In the ancient texts of Kashmir Shaivism, there are many practices that connect us with our innate divinity. They describe how the physical body can be experienced as in nite space and how we have become really familiar with its materiality due to the stresses, traumas and attachments held within. Through Yoga, we start to see more clearly all the different layers of who we are and how they operate. We investigate the transient nature of the mind, emotions and sensations and see how the boundaries of the physical body can dissolve if we let go of this idea that we are only a body mind entity. By opening to all that is arising and viewing it with fascination rather than resistance, we enter deep into the heart and discover our true nature is Love. This class is open to all beings. It is a soft and tender moving meditation. It doesn’t matter what shape or size you are or what level of exibility you have. It's for the inexible and the un-enlightened, its for the tall and the short, the light and the heavy, the wise and the bendy. Whoever you think you are, just come! It's wonderful to breathe together…

Cellar 15:30 – 17:30 Daniela Birschel, Dhruva Pada- Poetry Of The Morning Star This workshop is an active inquiry into vocal expressiveness. Your body is a resonance board for your voice, you are an instrument, and music is connecting you to a world often not perceived. The Indian Dhrupad style is a very developed form of music, originating in the research for spiritual resonances in Vedic times. The workshop is based on the voice technique of Indian Dhrupad singing, and gives room for individual and group expression. No former experience required, everybody has a voice. Nature 15:30 – 17:30 Jerry Diamanti, Connecting to the Vegetal Realm (We will begin by meeting in the Castle Lobby) A group of people will be accompanied to tune-in to the ows of energetic and organic information through the felt-sense that arises in the contact with the trees. (prana / aura / integrated vision in the scientic-biological eld).

17:30 – 18:00 Break

Evening Plenary Main Room 22:00 – 23:00 Pim van Lommel, The Science and Mystery Of Human Consciousness According to our current medical concepts, it is not possible to experi- ence consciousness during a cardiac arrest, when circulation and breathing have ceased. But during the period of unconsciousness due to a life-threatening crisis like cardiac arrest patients may report the paradoxical occurrence of enhanced consciousness experienced in a dimension without our conventional concept of time and space, with cognitive functions, with emotions, with self-identity, with memories from early childhood and sometimes with (non-sensory) perception out and above their lifeless body. We have to conclude that in cardiac arrest enhanced human consciousness is experienced during a transient loss of all functions of the cortex and of the brainstem. How could a clear consciousness outside one’s body be experienced at the moment that the brain no longer functions during a period of clinical death, with a at EEG? How is human consciousness related to the integrity of brain function? And is there a start or an end to human consciousness? Scientic study of near-death experiences pushes us to the limits of our medical and neurophysiologic ideas about the range of human consciousness and mind-brain relation, because we have to admit that it is not possible to reduce consciousness to neural processes as conceived by contemporary neuroscience. There are now good reasons to assume that our human consciousness does not always coincide with the functioning of our brain: enhanced consciousness can sometimes be experienced separately from the body. I have come to the inevitable conclusion that most likely the brain must have a facilitating and not a producing function to experience conscious- ness. By making a scienti c case for human consciousness as a nonlocal and thus ubiquitous phenomenon we must question a purely materialist paradigm in science. Moreover, recent research on NDE seems to be a source of new insights into the possibility of a continuity of our human consciousness after physical death.

19:30 Dinner

Evening program Courtyard 21:00 – 22:00 Being Each Other, Being One - A Group Experience Lead by Shakti Caterina Maggi Courtyard 22:00 – 23:00 Evening Performance with Lucia Comnes and Open Mic A storyteller at heart, Lucia writes powerful melodies with honest, earthy lyrics that reect her connection to the elements. Her music transcends genre boundaries as you can hear inuences from many including folk, blues, rock, Irish/Celtic, bluegrass, country, pop and world music. Her song, ‘No Hiding Place’, a swampy blues number that marries lines from Appalachian ballads to a Bo Diddley beat, was recognised by the Dallas Texas Songwriters Association as Best Song of the Year in 2014 which led to her recent recording project in Nashville, Tennessee. The San Francisco Chronicle described her as “A singular voice… embedded with soul and spirit.”

Saturday, July 7th

7:30 – 8:30 Main Room Morning Meditation with Aisha Salem Tent Morning Movement with Suzy Adra

8:00 – 09:30 Breakfast

Morning Plenary Main Room 9:30 – 10:00 Mauro Vedovello, The Enneagram "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter”. Tradition says this phrase was engraved at the entrance of the Academy founded by Plato in Athens. Equally in antiquity Pythagoras teachings focused on proving that “all things are numbers”. So what are numbers? Are they arbitrary or can they explain greater reality? Mauro Vedovello, scholar of the Enneagram, will combine the wisdom of sacred geometry with the knowledge coming from the contemporary Enneagram of personality uncovering the thread connecting western philosophy, religions and the human psyche. 10:10 – 10:20 Ajaya Sommers Intro to Core Embodiment 10:30 – 11:00 Aisha Salem, The Reality of Surrender In our walk of Truth, we stand face to face with Surrender as the aspect of our journey, which potentially covers every angle of our meeting with Reality.

11:00 – 11:30 Break

Morning Sessions Main Room 11:30 – 13:00 Conversation with Aisha Salem Principe Room 11:30 – 11:50 Jonas di Gregorio, Reframing Generosity to Co-create a Better World Inequality is creating a great divide in our society: in spite of the technologi- cal progress, social and economical inequality in the last 2 decades is growing. If we want to achieve social transformation, we need to create the conditions for a more equal society. In an age of technological innovation and automatization, how can the majority of population nd the means to sustain and heal themselves? What kind of change in our collective psyche we need to pursue in order to achieve a new paradigm where wealth is shared among citizens in a more wise and compassionate way? How can generosity, as a natural aspect of our nature, be reframed in the 21st century, to address the challenges of inequality? As Einstein said: "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them". But once we reach a new way of thinking, we need also a "new way of acting". In which ways we can act, in terms of shared responsibility for the ever increasing divide between wealthy people and poor people, is not easy to understand. Nevertheless, eminent thinkers have proposed ideas and approaches but they requires a radical revision of our believe systems. Is Universal Basic Income a possibility for our society? How the new generations will be able to afford the cost of their education? 12:00 – 12:20 Olivier Mortara, Movement to Rebalancing Relationships and movements affect our life. What are you doing every day to maintain or to improve your well-being ? Is Pain body a partner of your life? Maybe your functional movements are reduced? Through basics principles and (e)motions repertoires OM-ALIVE method guides you to free layers. The body elaborates aches under multiple expressions of which the mind is the source. We must use our memories and past events to trace back to the information that traps somato-emotional dysfunction. These reactions are dictated by the unconscious and spread psychophysiologi- cal pains that modify movement.

The OM-ALIVE method has been developed around movement so that the mind is better and the body frees itself from these aches. Through coordination and learning of basic principles, range of motion will be promoted to restore mobility. That's the starting point. But the movement is created by the movement and felt in its execution. Emotional layers that accumulate weaken vital forces and limit or destroy the permanent movements that occur within the body. Thanks to a subtle weave between breathing and vision, the OM-ALIVE method will guide you to identify the source of your dysfunction. Thus, defective movement patterns will give way to a harmonious vibration equilibrium. Your well-being goes through this phase of consciousness, because if the movement stops, life stops. If the degradation has settled in your inner world, you can get rid of it by creating new models.

12:30 – 12:50 Vinca Bigo, Management and Nonduality: The Possibility of Freedom without Anarchy The aim of this workshop is designed to showcase my experience of teaching business school students leadership classes in a radically different fashion in an endeavour to prepare them for a very kind of work environ- ment that is emerging. A new generation of highly successful liberated organizations (Poult, Chrono ex, Goretex, Michelin, Buurtzorg) are emerging that can be seen to adopt a turn towards freedom toward self-management, wholeness, and a deeper sense of purpose (Laloux 2015). Leaders have bodies, many of which experience stress and burnout. The course is designed to learn reconnect with their corporeal intelligence to cope with stress, avoid burnout, and further to develop intuition, charisma, inspiration and endurance. The body has become one of the most taken for granted, neglected and underestimated resource in the workplace. Not surprisingly, some of the west’s biggest companies, which are taking to yoga, meditation, mindfulness in a massive way (e.g. Google, General Mills, Aetna). My courses invite future leaders and managers to reveal the caring, inquiring, intuitive, and spiritual aspects of the self, and to express a 12:00 – 12:20 desire for meaning for when an organization feels lifeless, is it because we bring so little life to work. Today leaders need to accept to be authentic, act from the heart, show weaknesses, and accept failure. The teaching draws on yogic tools to deploy the power of the body, collective intelligence and meditation, in sync with a new generation of highly successful liberated organizations that are emerging, one in which the leader comes to work with the whole of themselves with a deeper sense of purpose. Cellar 11:30 – 13:00 Gail Brenner What Gets in the Way of Experiencing Love? Beginning when we are very young, most of us learn in the context of relationship that we can’t safely experience and express our emotions. Even though our parents and caregivers are well-meaning, they transmit to us their own fears, blocks, and defenses, and we develop our own strategies to cope the best that we can. We end up longing to know undivided, nondual reality—to return all separateness to its source as in nite love—but get caught up in patterns of conditioning that have been passed through the generations. These patterns take the shape of needing others to ll up the empty space we perceive within ourselves (people-pleasing, attention-seeking) or distancing ourselves from others out of fear (shyness, putting up walls, disengaging). Both of these patterns reinforce the belief in the separate self that is inherently anxious and not at peace. In this session, we’ll play with the possibility of dissolving the separation between “self” and “other.” We’ll use guided experiences in interaction with each other that can trigger our conditioned ways of relating, and we’ll welcome our fears and needs with the deepest acceptance. No longer acting out patterns unconsciously, the idea of “other” begins to fall away. You’re primed to realize and directly experience that everything you’ve ever wanted is right here in this timeless presence. Tent 11:30 – 13:00 Kristen Eykel, Sensual Spirituality To be human is deeply personal to the individual who is experiencing life. To have a body in & of itself, is deeply sensual & experiential. Of the millions, or even billions of nerve receptors in your body, thousands reside in your ngertips alone. They are designed to connect you to pleasure points, memory & processing centers that are aware & co-creative in a fraction of a second. These receptors naturally awaken humans into discovering elds of harmony or disharmony in relationship with everything around us. Traditional religious adherence has often tried to strip away this fact by burying normal human impulses as wild, untamed, animalistic or even dangerous. It has placed extraordinary emphasis on taming the mind & subjugating the body as the Gateway of God. The feelings of Knowing, of Seeing & of Intuiting is pre-wired & given to us by birth, yet has been shredded through the weight of fears & the threats of even torture & death throughout the centuries. To heal the traumas in icted by this history of suppression, we must invite the tender blossoming of our inherent Sensual Spirituality.

In this experiential session, we will dive into some of these sensitive receptors in both the physical & subtle bodies, and immerse ourselves deeply into a heightened perception via alternate states of conscious- ness that allow us to experience a realm of sensuality inherent in the spiritual self. With all of the trauma possible on this planet, glimpse why your soul would choose to inhabit it again and again. Feel & know deeply why past & even current leaders would squash any scent of sensuality in human life. Why deny the needs of the body as sinful, when Creation itself, from a child to an expression of art, is both carnal and divine? Join Kristen Eykel CHt. on this journey to unwind these ancestral bonds of fear & shame. Discover within the universe of your own body, how intimately connected you already are to the Self as Source. Enjoy becoming One with All!

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session Main Room 15:30 – 19:30 Open Space - Exploration: The SAND Gathering - Inspirations & Impact, with facilitators Stephane Vallee and Giles Vialard

19:30 Dinner

Evening Program Courtyard 21:30 – 23:30 Music Dance Party with DJ Timo Timoteo Gigante has DJed for the past 20+ yrs in San Francisco at every major club and intimate space imaginable. He has shared stages and opened for artists such as: Solange, Eryka Badu, Questlove, The Pharcyde, Cut Chemist, Z-Trip, Shock G, Mark Farina, Peanutbutter Wolf, Roy Davis Jr., Hot 8 Brass Band, Danny Krivit, Monk One, Skratch Bastid, and many more. After 9 years of partnership with the world-wide soul curators MOM DJs & EVENTS (Motown On Mondays) Timo has moved his home base to West County Sonoma and is launching his own production company, Love Light Shine, which will have him traveling regularly to Germany, Switzerland, Italy and beyond. Featuring a world wide sound with in uences from all cultures he will inspire people to let their love lights shine! Sunday, July 8th 7:30 – 8:30 Main Room Morning Meditation with Shakti Caterina Maggi Tent Morning Movement with Kristen Eykel

8:00 – 09:30 Breakfast

Morning Plenary Main Room 9:30 – 10:00 Gail Brenner, Suffering Is Optional: The Origins of the Separate Self and the Pathless Path to Freedom As we gure out how to live the truth of nondual awareness in everyday life, we naturally encounter the contractions of the separate self. We get stuck in repetitive thought patterns and the emotions that underlie them. We feel fearful, sad, or angry and don’t know what to do with these feelings. We’ve had a taste of the Truth and long to live surrendered into the timeless unfolding of life, but our experience is mostly separation, dissatisfaction, and the sense that things are not okay. For most of us, the belief in the separate self needs to be untangled. How do we come to believe the illusion that we’re separate from reality? Why do we continually suffer in our conditioning if suffering is optional? And how do we experience the in nite freedom of our true nature? Conditioned patterns run deep, and they originate early on in life as a natural result of what we learn and experience. As infants, we’re completely dependent on others to get our needs met. When these needs aren’t met, our reactions get stuck in our bodies, and once the brain is developed enough, we spin in our minds trying to gure out solutions to our pain. Without investigating them, these conditioned patterns get more reinforced over the years and become our living reality. The truth of who you are has never been separate, unful lled, or lacking anything. And it’s right here, right now to be known and experienced. In this presentation, you’ll gain a deep understanding of how conditioning keeps you feeling separate. And you’ll learn simple skills to uncondition- ally welcome whatever arises. Now available to explore beyond the known, you’re primed to discover your Self: boundless, free, and overowing with life.

10:10 – 10:20 Open 10:30 – 11:00 Michael Wenger Your Head Is Already In The Tiger’s Mouth “The journey to God is nite. The journey in God is in nite.” — Ibn Al Arabi All of us have a deep longing for lasting happiness. Most of us, for a shorter or a longer time, have made the experience of knowingly being this peace, love and happiness with the inner knowing, that this is actually available for us all the time, since we are made of it. This knowing is what Ramana Maharshi meant when he used to say ”Your head is already in the tiger's mouth”. This experiential and down to earth workshop will focus on clarifying a series of common misunderstandings connected with the absence of this lasting happiness and on sharing and learning practical and easily applicable tools and practices for always coming home, to the eternal timeless presence of now.

11:00 – 11:30 Break

Morning Sessions Main Room 11:30 – 13:00 Conversation with Vera de Chalambert, Aisha Salem, and Shakti Caterina Maggi Principe Room 11:30 – 11:50 Subba Vaidyanathan, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra - A Non-dual Awakening! Our thoughts, speech and action are based on the memories we hold of our past experiences. And these actions, in turn, set off ripples that shape the future of everything. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the pre-eminent text of the Yoga School of Philosophy, elucidates the path of liberation from this cycle of the past, thereby delivering us and, thereby, the world around us to happiness. In this talk, we will taste the chanting of the sutras, understand their structure and core message, and wrap up with a short meditation of loving kindness!

12:00 – 12:20 Uri Ben-Ya'acov, Consciousness Strives to Understand Itself Gí_del's incompleteness theorem (1931) identi es the existence of propositions of a special character ("Gí_delean"), which are well phrased and valid in a given logical system, yet are undecidable. Gí_delean propositions are self-referential claims that appear when the logical system seeks to de ne itself from itself. Hence, when such self-reference is required it necessarily leads to logical failure logical systems are unable to refer to themselves logically. This inability is a fundamental trait of logic. Logical systems are de ned by a nite set of fundamental principles (axioms) + inference rules. Gí_delean propositions can be made decidable by adding appropriate axioms. But then new, larger logical systems are created, in which new Gí_delean propositions can be formulated äóñ in any logical system, however large, it is impossible to avoid the existence of Gí_delean claims. Since cognitive processes are mainly logical, Gí_del's theorem inevitably has signi cant implications for understanding the mind. Self-reference is a very distinctive, characteristic of consciousness: consciousness seeks to recognize and understand itself from itself, within itself logically. Since logic fails when self-reference is required, consciousness seeking to understand itself necessarily exceeds the realm of standard logic. Personal consciousness uses basic insights and understandings that serve as axioms. A consciousness Gí_delean question requires insights that are not available in the person's realm of consciousness. Investiga- tion bring new insights, together with new undecidable questions. It's a never ending process. A possible way out of the logical failure is to understand consciousness as hierarchically structured, so that self-reference is from a higher level to lower. This is an in nite hierarchy, which may grow exponentially. Therefore, consciousness cannot be understood as a closed, nite, formal system (AI) but, necessarily, as an open system with in nite growth.

12:30 – 12:50 Jacqueline Cripps, Connected or disconnected? Exploring the Impacts of Social Media and Technology on Spirituality Our world is changing. The advancements of technology over recent decades has revolutionised the speed, access and attainment of informa- tion. Global connection and cohesion is expanding at rapid rates. While a noticeable global shift is happening in consciousness, limitations remain. That being the failing to understand and harbour the nature of the authentic self and spiritual journey and the subsequent risk of falling, or remaining captive to human mind mentality. Until people understand the true nature of who we are and our purpose here on earth, they will remain limited in the positive contribution that can be made to the evolution of consciousness. This keynote offers a fresh and contemporary perspective of the spiritual journey and examines the impacts of social media and technology on spirituality. Participants will be: --provided with an overview of the spiritual journey, including practical real-life examples from the speaker’s personal journey --provided with an overview and understanding of common impacts of social media in relation to spirituality --encouraged to challenge existing assumptions and attitudes --encouraged to adopt a higher perspective on life Cellar Ajaya Sommers, Beyond the trap of Spiritual Bypassing: Core 11:30 – 13:00 Embodiment Practices for resting as Awareness while engaging your Fully Human Life Due to early developmental trauma, ancestral trauma and our cultural context at large, there is a prevailing unconscious current of using spiritual- ity and particularly the non-dual orientations to hide, bypass or otherwise disassociate from this intelligence. As if your needs are problems to be ashamed of and to x or get rid of on your way to spiritual realization. The beauty of any true spiritual path though is that eventually it will take you to the inevitable and ineffable place of reclamation of ALL that you are. In this class we will dive into somatic practice as a self- healing, oxytocin replenishing, cell-renewing ever fresh and inspired embodiment practice. Utilizing conscious breath, sound vibration, intimate contact, subtle intrinsic movement, embryological anatomy and provocative inquiry we enter into the inner alchemy that allows a dissolve of any outdated structures that may be obstructing our view. A psycho-spiritual somatic reorganization and higher order of self-regulation arises as our cells surrender into the all-pervasive holding ground of nature that is always present. We will re-emerge renewed, resourced and ready to re-engage our senses such that they become thresholds where the divine, the natural world, our culture and the mystery of being human coalesce as the dynamic dance of Life. Tent 11:30 – 13:00 Michael Wenger, Your Head Is Already In The Tiger’s Mouth (See previous)

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Sessions Main Room 15:30 – 17:30 Mauro Vedovello, Geometry, Numbers, The Enneagram And The Human Paradox (See previous) Principe Room 15:30 – 16:05 Jon Smith, Cultural Differences In Perception of Self and Other The environment, or culture, that we are born into and raised in greatly determines how we perceive the boundaries between self and other. There are fundamental differences in how Russians and Americans perceive these boundaries, and these differences lead to diverse interpretations of the world around us and subsequently to disparate modes of interacting with the realities that we co-create and are embed- ded in. These relationships to the world around us result in what seem to be diametrically opposed systems of governance, social infrastructure, domestic and foreign policy. Raising awareness of why the differences exist can lead to a deeper understanding of each other. A nondual approach to examining the processes which our cultures and societies are embedded in can help us arrive at more accurate assessments of motives and behavior. If we allow ourselves to interpret behavior in the context of the meaning system in which it arises, then we have the exibility of adjusting our reactions so that they are more coherent with the new (foreign) context. This new dynamic can ultimately lead to improved relations between Russia and the west. We will look at cultural differences in physical and mental space, privacy, individual and national identity, how we process and express emotions (anger and con ict), examples of how independence and interdependence manifest themselves in our two cultures. We will examine how perceived superiority and inferiority can make it impossible to communicate, how the answers äóìyesäó and äóìnoäó are not so simple as we think, and we will learn that simply having good intentions and being yourself can lead to unexpected outcomes. We will also look at how intergenerational collective trauma complicates cross-cultural understanding.

16:10 – 16:45 Cosmin Visan, The Emergent Structure of Consciousness Even though emergent ideas are not new, going back at least a century, since C.D. Broad, they are nevertheless regarded as being about a physical world. I am not aware of any application of emergent ideas to consciousness, besides the simple consciousness/brain dualism. Therefore, in my paper, "The Emergent Structure of Consciousness", by taking the idealist paradigm that consciousness is all there is, I apply emergent ideas to consciousness and show how consciousness is structured in an emergent hierarchy of levels, accounting in this way for much of consciousness phenomenology and also opening up doors for Physics to be integrated into consciousness. Examples of emergent qualia hierarchies: black-and-white -> shades-of-gray -> colors -> shapes -> objects -> full visual scenes. Each emergent level is unpredict- able from a lower level and is irreducible to a lower level. Other examples: sounds -> music, sweet -> taste of chocolate, understanding triangles, angles, lengths -> understanding Pythagoras Theorem, etc. Besides these simple examples, my paper goes all the way down and shows how the rst level of consciousness is the Self, from which other levels emerge, such as: vividness -> diversity -> memory -> time, etc., thus revealing how much of consciousness phenomenology can be beautifully accounted for if its emergent structuring is recognized. Then, the way in which Physics is integrated in consciousness is unlike any attempt put forward so far, for the simple reason that no one treated consciousness in an emergent way. Other theories, like Orch-OR of Roger Penrose or Conscious Realism of Donald Hoffman, assume that all qualia can be treated on the same level, and so their success of making a connection between Physics and consciousness is limited. By acknowledging that consciousness is actually structured on an emergent hierarchy, then qualia cease to be all on the same level, so a totally different approach for integrating Physics into consciousness arises. 16:50 – 17:25 Joshua Bloom, The Miracles of Nature and Origins of Life Award winning Nature photographer and Scientist explores the wonder- ment of Nature and some of the biggest mysteries including conscious- ness. Also touching upon emergence of humanity’s constructs of science and belief systems and their compatibility with Nature. Tent 15:30 – 17:30 Rita Venturini, Authentic Movement Authentic Movement is a method developed by Mary Whitehouse as an extension of Jung’s free associations, from spoken words to movement and sound. It is an opening of the door of being through the body. The mover closes her eyes and allows her deepest impulses to manifest in movement, sounds and maybe words. The witness tracks the mover and (separately)his own sensations, feelings, images, metaphors. When they meet their sharing is the story of the sacred and undivided unfolding of the eld of life.

17:00 – 17:30 Break

Evening Session Main Room 18:00 – 19:30 Closing, Integration, Community Time

19:30 Dinner

Evening Program Piazza 21:30 – 23:00 Closing Drumming Circle with Mixture Orchestra Giuseppe Sanna, Founder and Director of Mixtura Ochestra An eclectic percussionist specializing in Arabic, Brazilian, African, didjeridoo, berimbau and timbric percussions. In 1995 he began to study the darbuka, and all the framed drums of the M’ashreq and Magreb areas of Africa with master Paolo Sanna. In 2003 he studied didgeridoo with Papi Moreno. And since 2004 has been infusing his studies with the rhythms and concepts of percussion typical of Brazilian folklore with Gilson Silveira. He also studies African percussions with the masters Piergianni Gillio and Magatte Dieng. He holds Brazilian percussion seminars, as well as (improvisation, hybrid techniques of independence, construction of musical instruments) in Sardinia since 2009. He has been studying with master Misirli Ahmet a virtuous technique called in English split hand technique since 2013. In Brazil, in Salvador de Bahia, he studied with the renowned Olodum school, Maestro Giba Conceicao and MaestroMacambira. Monday, July 9th Main Room 7:30– 8:30 Morning Meditation with Peter Russell 8:00 – 09:30 Breakfast 10:00 Check-out of Titignano Founders Maurizio & Zaya Benazzo

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